Nest Labs, the home automation company behind the well-known smart thermostat, smoke detector, and other smart products, has just sent out press invitations to a "big announcement" on September 20 in San Francisco. This comes after just having announced the Thermostat E earlier today, which boasts a lower price tag and cleaner design.

It isn't clear what Nest plans to reveal at its press conference — the invitation mentions popcorn and a couch, so maybe some sort of a TV remote or perhaps even a smart microwave? On the other hand, there's really no reason to assume that the invitation is even supposed to allude to anything, so your guess is as good as mine.

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Good_Ole_Pinocchio

About time they start putting out some more products. Too much talent there.

Johnny

If it wasn't for that controlling freak of a CEO, Nest would be much further at this time, and Google Home would have gotten a lot of Alexa's users by being out earlier on the market. Google had to finally kick the Nest founder out, to get things moving. I applaud them for it, and I wish they would have done it earlier. Anyway, they paid way to much for Nest, it was not worth what they paid.

Almost sounds like they could be building a Pixel Player type device. Lines up with the couch and popcorn. But that would be a little out of their comfort zone.

bozzykid

Seems like it has to be a smart home device given Nest's track record. I don't see how a set top box would fit into that. But who knows.

Eric Anderson

Maybe it is a device similar to the Nvidia Spot - a smart speaker with Google Assistant built in. Which can control your TV or music.

Idk, I don't know why they would talk about popcorn and couches if it didn't have some significant tie to the living room and/or entertainment. It would be really odd if it was a refresh for their Nest outdoor cam or something.

thespacecowboy

That would seem weird considering it could be in competition to Google Home? And rumors of Google Home doing a Dot style speaker. Maybe it's an integration of Nest tech and speaker from the Google Home side?

Eric Anderson

What do you mean by your last guess? Nest products and Google Home are already integrated. It's gotta be a new Nest physical product I would think.

thespacecowboy

I didn't say last guess :)

Just not sure why Nest would release a speaker when they are owned by Google, unless it was a combo product (full speaker and thermostat, or full speaker and security cam?). Dunno. We shall see. Neither of them seem compelling.

bozzykid

Most likely it is a security system and perhaps a new lower cost camera to go along with it.

Does the Nest work with 2-wire communicating systems? We almost had one of those in our home when replacing our HVAC a couple years ago.

LOL

95% of Boston residence is commercial :) and many systems are not new but 70s-80s....

JasonIvers

Maybe it's a new Nest with microphones that supports Google Assistant (i.e. you don't need a separate Home device)... this would make sense, given that the thermostat is often in the most frequented rooms of a house.

nxtiak

You think so? I've been in many many houses where thermostat is in a corner of the house, hallway, entryway where NO one frequents.

Paul_Werner

Works for me via Assistant on my 6P

Isaac Fischer

I'm betting it's a home entertainment device (Android TV based) that also does home control. Nexus Player / Google Home with a touchscreen control panel, tying into the onscreen Google Assistant functions from I / O.

Eric Anderson

That was my guess as well.

Luxferro

That would be interesting, but I bet it will suck because Nest hardly ever improves their products via software fixes or enhancements.

Apple should have bought them instead of Google, because they have the same close-minded attitude about suggestions and adding features.

Disphouf

Maybe it's just a connected sofa. Preparing beers and popcorn based on what your watching, rolling joints at 4:20, heating or cooling cushion from nest thermostat and of course a touch screen remote integrated in armrest.

mwenn1

could be their rumored upcoming security system

F4LL0U7

Security system + doorbell, please.

Anthrox

small onsite server would be also good some people don't have internet to support the nest cloud backup or the ongoing costs

John Doe

That defeats the purpose of nest.

F4LL0U7

Their business model involves a subscription, so I doubt they'd allow for local recording.

A security system would be interesting... Home intruder alarms really haven't changed that much in the last 30 years and seem kinda antiquated, that industry is ripe for disruption.

F4LL0U7

Well they were rumored to be working on a doorbell, security system, and cheaper thermostat. The new thermostat just came out, so...

Em iVideo

HA! That is what I thought, too! I hope it is integrated with ADT Canopy.

Em iVideo

The newest thing is the Canary and other DIY Camera's with Motion detector's. It seem's like a small change, but considering so many people live in apartments now making it easier to people to have security system's is a pretty big deal. I'd love to see what Google/nest has in store.

Em iVideo

That's what i think they are going to do, actually. They had a rumor about a security system and doorbell, along the same report mentioned the Thermostat E. Well, Thermostat E was announced the same day this went out. It seems odd if it's not the security system. I think it will work with ADT Canopy, too, which would be awesome!

marcusmarcus2

Popcorn and couch? Seems like it would have something to do with TV with those. Maybe that or a smart popcorn machine and smart couch.